Per Persson
Dekan
Involutin is a Fe3+ reductant Secreted by the Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Paxillus involutus during Fenton-based Decomposition of Organic Matter.
Författare
Summary, in English
Ectomycorrhizal fungi play a key role in mobilizing nutrients embedded in recalcitrant organic matter complexes, thereby increasing nutrient accessibility to the host plant. Recent study have shown that during assimilation of nutrients, the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus decomposes organic matter using an oxidative mechanism involving Fenton chemistry (Fe(2+) + H2O2 + H(+) → Fe(3+) + •OH + H2O) similar to that of brown-rot wood-decaying fungi. In such fungi, secreted metabolites are one of the components that drive one-electron reductions of Fe(3+) and O2, generating Fenton chemistry reagents. Here, we investigated whether such a mechanism is also implemented by P. involutus during organic matter decomposition. Activity-guided purification was performed to isolate the Fe(3+)-reducing principle secreted by P. involutus during growth on maize compost extract. The Fe(3+)-reducing activity correlated with the presence of one compound. Mass spectrometry and NMR identified this compound as the diarylcyclopentenone involutin. A major part of the involutin produced by P. involutus during organic matter decomposition was secreted into the medium and the metabolite was not detected when the fungus was grown on a mineral nutrient medium. We also demonstrated that in the presence of H2O2, involutin has the capacity to drive an in vitro Fenton reaction via Fe(3+) reduction. Our results show that the mechanism for reducing Fe(3+) and generating hydroxyl radicals via Fenton chemistry by ectomycorrhizal fungi during organic matter decomposition is similar to that expressed by the evolutionarily related brown-rot saprotrophs during wood decay.
Avdelning/ar
- MEMEG
- Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
- Mikrobiologisk ekologi
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
8427-8433
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Volym
81
Issue
24
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
American Society for Microbiology
Ämne
- Microbiology
Status
Published
Projekt
- MICCS - Molecular Interactions Controlling soil Carbon Sequestration
Forskningsgrupp
- Microbial Ecology
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0099-2240